Rotary bristle-combing device.



No. 866,406. PATENTED 'SEP-TJ17, 1 907. M. P. ,TOTTLE.

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MORTON P. TOTTLE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

ROTARY BRISTLE-COMBING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed January 17,1906. Serial N0. 296.468-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MonToN P. TOTTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rotary Bristle-Oombing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rotary combing devices for bristle mixing machines and has for its object to provide a construction in which the bristles are clamped between and conveyed by two endless belts with a rotary comb revolving at one side of the belts to comb one end of the clamped bristles as they travel past it and with a second rotary comb at the other side of the belts and further along in the traveling circuit of the belts to comb the other ends oi". the bristles so that the two ends of the bristles will be combed at different times.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of a rotary comb.

.The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and shows the two rotary combs and their relation to the bristles clamped between the belts on the table of the machine.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1, designates a table which may be a continuation of or attached to the end of a mixing machine. This table may be of any preferred construction but in the present instance is supported by suitable legs, 2, so as to be sustained in a horizontal position. The top surface of the table is provided with a groove, 3, which extends lengthwise thereof for the reception of a belt or other conveyer as will be presently described.

' Shafts, 4, and, 5, are sustained by suitable bearings, 6, and, '7, at opposite sides of the table and each of these shafts is provided with a cone-pulley, 8, by which its speed may be varied.

One end of theshait, 4, carries a rotary comb, 9, while the opposite end of shaft, 5, also carries a rotary comb, 10. These combs are made in sections and each section comprises a plate having a central hub, 11, with a plurality of teeth, 12, formed integrally there with which radiate and curve from the hub and have the form of hooks which point in the direction in which the comb travels and all the teeth of each plate being in the same plane.

By making the combs in plate sections any number of such plates may be mounted on the shaft side-byside, and the position of the ends of the teeth on the several plates varied so that the teeth of one plate may have position in a horizontal planebetween the ends of the teeth of the adjoining plates. And the number of sections may be varied to suit the particular kind and grade of bristles to be combed. Excellent results are given by this arrangement of comb sections because the teeth pass through the stock one after the other in succession and not altogether as in a reciproeating comb and the result is that the bristles are turned in a parallel direction without strain and waste caused by pulling the bristles out. A

By reference to Fig. 1 of the drawing it will be seen that the table is provided with notches, 13, through which the teeth of the combs pass as they revolve. A conveyer of a belt construction is employed to convey the bristles past the combs and the conveyer comprises a lower belt, 14, which travels through the groove, 3, in the top surface of the table and on which the stock or bristles is laid and an upper belt, 15, which travels at the same rate of speed as the-lower belt and which presses the stock down and clamps it on the lower belt. It will thus be understood that the stock will be clamped between the two belts, 14, and, 15, so that the ends of the bristles will project at each side of the belts.

After the bristles have been clamped between the belts they will be conveyed along the table and as they reach the notch, 13, the exposed ends of the bristles at one side of the belts will be combed by the teeth of the comb, 9, and then as the other end of the bristles arrive at the notch on the opposite side of the belts the other ends of the bristles will be combed out by the teeth of the comb, 10.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. A bristle combing machine having in combination a frame, a plurality of traveling endless belts to clamp the bristles between them; a rotary shaft at each side of the belts and each shaft carrying a plurality of spaced apart comb plates arranged side by side and each comb plate having a plural number of radiating curved teeth.

2. A bristle combing machine having in combination a frame; two rotary combs mounted at opposite sides of the frame so as to revolve in opposite directions and one in advance of the other; a plurality of traveling endless belts to clamp the bristles between them and means whereby one end of the bristles may be supported while one rotary comb acts on the unsupported end and then supporting the previously combed end of said bristles while the other rotary comb acts on the opposite nnsupported end thereof.

3. A bristle combing machine comprising a frame, a

plurality of traveling endless belts for clamping the bristles between them; a comb revolving vertically at the side of the traveling belts for acting on the ends of the passing bristles,-said comb comprising a plurality of plates and each plate having a series of teeth all of which are in the same vertical plane and the ends of. the teeth of one plate of the comb having position in a horizontal plane between the ends of the teeth of the adjoining plate of the same comb.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MORTON P. TOTTLE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, J12, G. FERDINAND VOGT. 

